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Mary Bradway correspondence
Collection — othertype: SC-013
Identifier: SFHL-SC-013
Abstract
This collection includes the personal correspondence of Mary S. Bradway with John Comly, John and Judith Cornell, and John Hallowell. The letters are personal in content, with some discussion of the nature of contemporary Quaker spirituality.
Dates:
1829-1886
Benjamin Harrison Branch Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-176
Abstract
Benjamin H. Branch, Jr. (1919-1993), son of Benjamin H. and Rachel Neill Hoge Branch of Loudoun Co., Virginia, was a birthright Quaker and member of Goose Creek United Meeting. He was active in the Friends Meeting of Washington, acting as Historian. The collection contains personal papers and materials relating to the Conference of Friends in America. Series 1 contains genealogical information,Hoge family letters, and a bound selection of letters of Nathan Jarvis (copies). Series 2 includes...
Dates:
1853-1992[bulk 1977-1992]
Branson-Jackson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-016
Abstract
Anna M. Jackson and her daughter, Anna M. (Jackson Branson) Theiss, were Quaker activists in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Anna M. Jackson was very involved in reform activities in New York City. She served as Chairman of the Women's Prison Reform Committee, and was also involved in the Women's Municipal League and the Political Study Club. Her daughter, Anna Morris Jackson ("Pansy"), attended Swarthmore College for two years, and in 1909 earned a B.S. in Education from Columbia...
Dates:
1794-1962
Brantingham-Stratton Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-017
Abstract
This collection contains papers, in part typed transcriptions, concerning the Brantingham and Stratton families, Quaker families of England and Ohio. Includes correspondence and a transcript of sea journal (1798-1799) of George Brantingham (1770-1845), an English Quaker who emigrated to Philadelphia and by 1821 had settled in Salem, Ohio. Most of the correspondence is directed to George Brantingham or his daughter Hannah from members of Brantingham's family in England, including brothers,...
Dates:
1817-1937
Jane W. T. Brey Collection of Family Findings
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-018
Abstract
Jane W. T. Brey (Jane Watson Taylor Brey, 1895-1982) was a genealogist. This collection chiefly contains photoprints of deeds, wills, marriage certificates and genealogical charts and pictures, relating to the Taylor, Wildman, and Watson families, Quakers of Bucks County, Pa.
Dates:
1682-1894
Collection of John Bright correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-011
Abstract
Collected correspondence of John Bright, a British Quaker. He was a Radical and Liberal statesman, a promoter of free trade policies, and one of the greatest orators of his generation. The collection contains about 200 letters.
Dates:
1839 - 1888
Collection of Bringhurst Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-046
Abstract
Contains the collected correspondence of the Bringhurst family, largely compiled by C. Marshall Taylor. It includes correspondence, 1780-1806, of Philadelphia Quaker businessman James Bringhurst and his letters received from John Murray of New York City. Bringhurst corresponded with family and prominent friends including John Dickinson, Job Scott, Nathan Hunt, James Pemberton, Jesse Kersey, Lindley Murray and Moses Brown. Of particular interest are descriptions of life in Philadelphia and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1780 - 1811; 1780 - 1941
Joseph Brinton Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-233
Abstract
Joseph Brinton, an outspoken member of the Society of Friends from southeastern Pennsylvania, was active in the Wilburite schisms of the 1850s and 1860's in New England. His family papers include his own journals, as well as his extensive correspondence. This collection also includes the correspondence of his two wives, Mary H. Brinton and Anna H. Brinton.
Dates:
1758-1931
Brooks Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-252
Abstract
The Brooks Family Papers contain extensive correspondence, diaries, and other papers from multiple generations of the Buck, Butler, and Brooks families of New England and the Mid-West and the Kerner family of Delaware. Prominently represented are Morgan Brooks (1861-1947), a professor of engineering, and his wife, Frona Marie (Brooks) Brooks (1861-1947). One of their children, Charles Franklin Brooks (1891-1958), became a member of the Society of Friends shortly after marrying Eleanor M....
Dates:
1790-1992 (bulk 1832-1960)
Brooks family photographs
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-129
Abstract
Involved in this collection are Morgan Brooks (1861-1947), a professor of engineering, and his wife, Frona Marie (Brooks) Brooks (1861-1947). One of their children, Charles Franklin Brooks (1891-1958), became a member of the Society of Friends shortly after marrying Eleanor M. Stabler (1892-1986) in 1914. Their daughter, Barbara Brooks (1922-2007), married Edward H. Kerner, and she was active in Quaker concerns, particularly peace.
This collection contains loose photgraphs, albums, and...
Dates:
1790 - 1992
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- Westtown Boarding School 18
- Friends General Conference (U.S.) 16
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 14
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 12
- Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 12
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 11
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 11
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 11
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 10
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 9
- George School (Bucks County, Pa.) 9
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 9
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 9
- Penn, William, 1644-1718 9
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 8
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 8
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 8
- Parsons, Samuel, 1774-1841 8
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 8
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 7
- Cooper family 7
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 7
- Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 7
- Jenkins, Charles Francis, 1865-1951 7
- Moore family 7
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1955) 7
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) 7
- Palmer family 7
- Stabler family 7
- Truman, George 7
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- Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859 6
- Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 6
- Foulke family 6
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 6
- Grellet, Stephen, 1773-1855 6
- Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 6
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 6
- Jenkins family (Jenkins, Jabez, 1792-1858) 6
- Lloyd family 6
- McClintock, Thomas, 1792?-1876 6
- Mott, James, 1788-1868 6
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955) 6
- Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 6
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 6
- Poole, William, 1764-1829 6
- Schofield, Martha 6
- Scott, Job, 1751-1793 6
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- Wharton, Joseph, 1826-1909 6
- Williams family 6
- Woolman, John, 1720-1772 6
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 5
- Bean, Joel, 1825-1914 5
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 5
- Elkinton family 5
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- Hicks family 5
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- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 5
- Hunn family 5
- Jackson family 5
- Kimber, Emmor, 1775-1850 5
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends 5
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- Parrish family 5
- Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 5
- Pemberton, John, 1727-1795 5
- Powell, Aaron M. (Aaron Macy), 1832-1899 5
- Price family 5
- Roberts family 5
- Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.) 5
- Smedley family 5
- Swarthmore Chautauqua Association 5
- Swarthmore Historical Society 5
- Tolles, Frederick Barnes, 1915-1975 5
- Walton family 5
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- Wharton, Deborah Fisher, 1795-1888 5
- Wilson family 5
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) 4
- Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 4
- Bond, Elizabeth Powell, 1841-1926 4
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 4
- Chalkley, Thomas, 1675-1741 4
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